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- 2011-01-21
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CLOAK AND DAGGER
Cloak and Dagger opened over the NBC network on May 7, 1950. It had a short run through the Summer on Sundays, changing to Fridays after its Summer run. The last show aired October 22, 1950.
The series told fictional stories of OSS agents during World War II who took dangerous missions behind enemy lines, knowing they may never return alive.
The series was based on the 1946 book "Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Story of the OSS" by Corey Ford and Alastair MacBain. It was a tense half hour of patriots and traitors, of triumph, tragedy and failure. The stories did not always end in success -- sometimes, the hero/agent gave up his life. There were 22 episodes, broadcast in 1950.
The theme music was either identical or very similar to that used by Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Sherman Marks directed. The cast consisted of The Hungarian Giant, played by Raymond Edward Johnson, and Impy the Midget, played by Gilbert Mack.
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Heimrich
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July 31, 2022
Subject: Highly valuable ahistorical piece of American Propaganda
Subject: Highly valuable ahistorical piece of American Propaganda
I find it rather hypocritical that a country with a history of slavery and extermination tells us (Italians) that we were fighting a war of ‘men against machines’ in Abyssinia and spreads a negative image of us all over the world! It takes incredible courage to proclaim senseless idiocy like that after you’ve just dropped two atomic bombs on civilians of a highly civilized culture like the japanese. The Abyssinians were being armed by the British and other western powers, so to say it was a war of machines against men is an ideological exaggeration. The Italians that sacrificed their lives for their nation, the Duce and the King, didn’t do so in vain, they gave our country a wonderful page in the history books, because after the frontline of brave soldiers, including the indigenous Askaris fighting on our side, followed engineers, technicians, roadworkers, rail workers you name it, to modernize a country that was simply underdeveloped!
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rmodel
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July 28, 2016
Subject: Excellent
Subject: Excellent
Too bad there are not more episodes, I really enjoy the things to do with O.S.S and espionage.
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April 16, 2014
Subject: Hidden Gem
Subject: Hidden Gem
This is a terrific, yet underappreciated series. Great production values, real drama and suspense, and based on actual events. It's a shame it came along later in the game and a shame it wasn't given more of a chance.
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Mike Hobart
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March 25, 2008
Subject: something different
Subject: something different
There are lots of radio shows about spies in World War II, but this one manages to take a different angle on the business of foreign intrigue. The agents are often non-professionals, and find themselves in strange situations and locales. I particularly liked "Roof of the World" and "Recommendation from Rommel".
These stories are "suggested" by actual cases in the archives of the OSS, which allows the scriptwriters some latitude to come up with great stories without being bound to exact events.
These stories are "suggested" by actual cases in the archives of the OSS, which allows the scriptwriters some latitude to come up with great stories without being bound to exact events.
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